Below are our blog posts, which are designed to be concise, informative messages about the industry we serve and the role we play in advancing care for patients. We hope you find them interesting!

Cloud PACS provide all the features you expect in an onsite PACS with additional functionality and benefits, including a reduction in overall cost of operations to improve your return on investment. With a Cloud PACS, there is no need for onsite hardware as data is stored redundantly in a Cloud system, effectively eliminating the threat of...

In a healthcare environment that promotes patient engagement, making sure information remains confidential is paramount. Whether information is shared between physicians or with the patient themselves, measures must be taken to insure both the security and integrity of the data. Every vendor in the healthcare sector offers various levels of securit...

I did a Google search for “healthcare innovation” and came up with all sorts of hits: “FDA approves novel implanted sensor to watch heart failure”; “Infographics are revolutionizing the patient experience”; “New hepatitis C drug – a priceless breakthrough”; “Big Data has big potential” and wondered just what constitutes something innovative? ...

Ask ten people what big data means and you get ten different answers. Nearly all will agree that it includes data sets that are so large in volume (terabytes to petabytes) or complex in nature that traditional data processing applications can’t be used. The one thing nearly everyone in healthcare will agree on is that...

The future of connected healthcare is here today. End users evaluating a system want to know that they are taking a step forward, not backward, and that a system that works with everyone using standards to interconnect is the only way healthcare can meet its stated goals. Connected healthcare dates back to the late 1960’s...

The fundamental image entry point into a medical imaging ecosystem must use a small footprint with efficient communication capabilities. Images need to be packaged and moved to their destination securely and quickly, leveraging the available bandwidth. When these images arrive, there can be no lag in unpacking and processing the data. Users need ac...

Interactive streaming of DICOM image objects into viewers is the fundamental operation driving a quality user experience in diagnostic image interpretation. Unintelligent sequential downloading of images one-by-one is the norm with most current PACS solutions. Physicians are forced and trained to live with sub-optimal performance. Consider CT/MR ty...

Zero hardware failures and five nines of uptime after several millions of imaging exams and after several hundred terabytes of storage – it is a nice proof statement for the ingenuous architecture of BrickStore™ storage, developed and implemented by ScImage, at the PicomOnline (www.picomonline.com) Cloud PACS and healthcare image interoperability p...

Critical alerts workflow requires disseminating alerts via text messaging and email distribution and running a clinical imaging web portal that is exposed to users outside the firewall. Most institutions with IT departments do have proper infrastructure for text messaging and email distribution but are subjected to local domain and security restric...

Modern PACS is not just an independent imaging box anymore that can only do acquisition, storage and distribution of images. It needs to coexist and stay connected with rest of the workflow components of imaging service. The workflow starts with an ordering system, goes through various clinical components and activities and ends with result distrib...

Patients visiting multiple specialists at multiple institutions are a common occurrence throughout the healthcare ecosystem that needs some special consideration from an information exchange perspective. When it comes to exchanging data, on the surface and under ideal conditions things may appear simple and straightforward. Institutions, however, f...

A picture is worth a thousand words. Image pointers bring richness to EMR content. Whether it is physician to patient consultation or physician to physician consultation, images elevate comprehension to a higher level. Insertion of image pointers into an EMR may be a luxury for now but is fast becoming a necessity. In many institutions,...

Imagine the backstage of a high school symphonic band concert, ten minutes before the start. This is how imaging modalities are playing together in many cardiology departments today. Interestingly, the larger the institution, the greater the fragmentation and chaos. Your experience sitting in the audience once the concert starts is much different. ...

ScImage is proud to solidify its leadership in delivering complex collaborative reading solutions to institutions of varying sizes. This is not a statement about what is logically possible. It is based on the knowledge and experience gained by operating several complex environments that have been operational for several months to several years. Our...

that depends… If you are managing a larger institution, already invested in multiple imaging workflow solutions, it makes sense to invest in a single platform to store all your data. PICOM365 is an excellent option that provides VNA with built-in universal viewing. If you are managing a smaller institution, why waste money on a silo...

The healthcare IT community, in general, associates the notion of Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) to imaging procedures with radiology imaging taking the center stage. What about ECG management? The number of ECG exams done are not much fewer when compared to the number of X-Ray exams begin completed. Like radiology exams, ECGs need to be acquired, in...

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ScImage provides enterprise imaging and departmental PACS solutions for the healthcare industry. Founded in 1993, privately held, ScImage focuses on building customer loyalty to grow organically. Scalable from a single practice to multi-hospital enterprises, ScImage solutions are deployed on-premise, in the Cloud, or as a hybrid.